Welcome To The EDWARD GOODMAN VIRTUAL ARCHIVE

Edward Goodman (1945-2024) was a time-serving solicitor. He was also an anti-censorship activist, a talented artist, and an author. He served for twelve years as a Labour councillor, but his real passion was history.

I knew Edward for thirty years and worked with him for over twenty years, intensely since shortly after the death of the actor David Webb when he asked me to set up The NCROPA Virtual Archive. Six years later he asked me to set up the British Prudery Archive. On March 6, 2024, this was renamed The Ted Goodman Prudery Archive.

In 2013, he started a blog which I maintained for him, and in April 2023 he purchased a domain for a project concerned with numbers and history.

Shortly after his death in what I can only describe as an act of malice, both the website and the blog were deleted. The website was a work in progress and I have the entire thing on my hard disk. 

I thought most of these blog posts had been lost, but in May 2024 I was able to recover them all; they can now be found on a separate page: 

https://archive.org/details/the-goodman-history-blog

(I have deleted from this page the posts first published here).

Edward’s other projects were the publication of his mother’s memoirs, which we edited together, and five major works of history which were added to this archive on August 6, 2024.

These works are:

The Legendary Line Of Descent Of BRITISH RULERS (his magnum opus)

https://archive.org/details/goodman-works-line-of-descent-archive

HIGH PRIESTS & POPES; FROM ANTIQUITY TO PRESENT

https://archive.org/details/goodman-works-priests-and-popes-archive

LEADERS OF THE WEST: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT

https://archive.org/details/goodman-works-western-leaders-archive

RULERS OF ENGLAND: FROM ANTIQUITY TO PRESENT

https://archive.org/details/goodman-works-rulers-of-england-archive

THE JEWISH LINE OF SUCCESSION AND CHRONOLOGY: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT

https://archive.org/details/goodman-works-jewish-line-of-succession-archive

Edward’s mother was a remarkable woman who lived to the equally remarkable age of 106. Recognising the uniqueness of her story, he encouraged her to dictate it to him in her 90s. As his father also lived to a great age, 90, one would have expected, hoped, he would have lived at least as long. Sadly, cancer had other ideas.

His mother’s memoirs RELUCTANT NURSE The Memoirs Of Marie Goodman (1915-2021) can be found here:

https://archive.org/details/goodman-works-mother-archive

(The funeral service of Marie Goodman can be found here:  https://www.archive.org/details/marie-goodman-funeral-service).

My obituary of Edward Goodman can be found here: https://thedarkman.substack.com/p/ted-goodman-1945-2024

His grave can be found here: https://archive.org/details/egoodman-grave-2

This archive is a work in progress and will be augmented as time permits.

The following have been added so far:

egoodmanc-1.pdf: Letter British Library to Edward Goodman, July 14, 2016.

egoodmanc-2.pdf: Letter Ian Jackson to Goodman, August 17, 2000.

egoodmanc-3.pdf: Memorandum by Goodman re seizures by Customs of obscene materials, 1996.

egoodmanc-4.pdf: Goodman to Canterbury City Council, April 19, 2018.

egoodmanc-5.pdf: Canterbury City Council to Goodman, April 28, 2018.

egoodmanc-6.pdf: Edward Goodman CV to 2006. This isn’t entirely accurate; see his Substack obituary, which does not include Sandoms, but does include a more accurate (and up to date) timeline.

egoodmanc-7.pdf: Peter Hitchens to Goodman, July 21, 2006.

egoodmanc-8.pdf: Lawyers Secular Society to Goodman, June 17, 2009.

egoodmanc-9.pdf: Goodman to Stop The War, June 8, 2007 (enclosures not included).

egoodmanp-1.jpg: Photograph of Edward, circa 1990.

egoodmanp-2.jpg: Photograph of Edward in Egypt, 1972.

egoodmanp-3.jpg: Councillor aims for Parliament from the SURREY MIRROR Reigate and Redhill edition, November 8, 1990, page 20.

egoodmanp-4.jpg: NCROPA delegation to the Home Office, January 21, 1981.

egoodmanp-5.jpg: Notice of the winding up of NCROPA.

egoodmanp-6.jpg: Letter Tuppy Owens to Goodman, circa 1999.

egoodmanp-7.jpg: Letter Tuppy Owens to Goodman, circa 1999.

egoodmanp-8.jpg: Surrey Mirror (REDHILL, REIGATE & BANSTEAD), December 21, 1995, page 4: Edward gets a mention.

egoodmanp-9.jpg: Letter published in the Surrey Mirror (REDHILL, REIGATE AND BANSTEAD), December 30, 1999, page 6.

egoodmanp-10.jpg: Notice of Edward’s death from the Campaign Against Censorship website’s homepage.

egoodmanp-11.jpg: His entry from a column of potted biographies for election candidates, Tunbridge Wells, published in the KENT Evening Post (MEDWAY TOWNS), March 24, 1992, page 6.  

egoodmanp-12.jpg: Letter published in the Surrey Mirror (REDHILL, REIGATE AND BANSTEAD), April 16, 1998, page 9.

egoodmanp-13.jpg: HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating  Horley Advertiser, October 8, 1992, page 9. Quoted in this article. (This newspaper is a local edition of the Surrey Mirror, one of several).

egoodmanp-14.jpg: HORLEY MIRROR (CHARLWOOD, SMALLFIELD, GATWICK), January 18, 1996, page 3. Mention at the end of the article.

egoodmanp-15.jpg: Legal notice published in the LEATHERHEAD ADVERTISER (COBHAM, BOOKHAM FETCHAM and ASHTEAD ADVERTISER), September 11, 1986, page 31.  

egoodmanp-16.jpg: Caterham Mirror, January 14, 1999, page 7. (Quoted in article; the same report appeared in other editions of the Surrey Mirror).

egoodmanp-17.jpg: Surrey Mirror (REDHILL, REIGATE & BANSTEAD), January 25, 1996, page 1. (Councillor Goodman defends Harriet Harman!)

egoodmanp-18.jpg: Funeral notice from the local bulletin ReMember, on the day of his funeral!

egoodmanp-19.jpg: Funeral programme front page – thanks to Sean Gabb for this.

egoodmanp-20.jpg: SURREY MIRROR  (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), June 4, 1992, page 2. (Mention in article – the same article was published in the Caterham Mirror Incorporating The Caterham Times, same date, same page).

egoodmanp-21.jpg: HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating Horley Advertiser, February 17, 1994, page 7. (Quoted in article).

egoodmanp-22.jpg: SURREY MIRROR  (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), January 27, 1994, page 8. (Councillor Goodman is disgusted). This is the same article that appeared in the HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating Horley Advertiser on the same date (below); this is a different edition of the same newspaper.

egoodmanp-23.jpg: Goodman to the Editor of PLAN re the Jews and the Palestinians, September 6, 1982. (PLAN was the monthly journal of the Progressive League).

egoodmanp-24.jpg: Campaigning for Labour.

egoodmanp-25.jpg: With David Webb. 

egoodmanp-26.jpg: Letter to (Brynmor?) John MP, October 29, 1976.

egoodmanp-27.jpg: Letter Goodman to Alwyn Turner (address redacted), November 13, 2013.

egoodmanp-28.jpg: Letter Goodman to Surrey Trading Standards re entrapment (without enclosure), February 12, 1994.

egoodmanp-29.jpg: Invitation to an event by The Leydig Trust, 2003.

egoodmanp-30.jpg: HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating Horley Advertiser, August 11, 1994. Councillor Goodman quoted in article on page 5.

egoodmanp-31.jpg: SURREY MIRROR (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), June 30, 1994. Councillor Goodman mentioned in an article on page 5.

egoodmanp-32.jpg: SURREY MIRROR (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), July 2, 1992. Councillor Goodman on “the iniquitous council tax” in an article on page 7 (unnumbered).

egoodmanp-33.jpg: SURREY MIRROR (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), July 28, 1994, page 3. (Councillor Goodman is quoted).

Four photographs:

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egoodmanp-35.jpg

egoodmanp-36.jpg

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were taken on June 21, 2015 at the internment of the ashes of Terence DuQuesne in the grounds of the home of Dwina Murphy-Gibb (the widow of Robin Gibb and an accomplished artiste in her own right).

In the last photograph, Goodman is shown throwing some earth into the grave. 

Dwina is wearing the long red dress with white hair and glasses. Her son RJ is dressed as Anubis. I am the one wearing trainers.

egoodmanp-38.jpg: The Goodman family in 1970. The young woman is his sister Colette who died aged just 60.

egoodmanp-39.jpg: Reigate and Banstead: Council poll results published in the HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating Horley Advertiser and County Post, May 10, 1990, page 4.

egoodmanp-40.jpg: A report on the local council elections, published in the SURREY MIRROR (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), May 12, 1994, page 12.

egoodmanp-41.jpg: This is a photograph of Ted with David Webb and Tuppy Owens. A smaller version of this appears on page 227 of her autobiography that was launched on November 10, 2024. My thanks to her collaborator Emma Buckett who supplied it.

egoodmanp-42.jpg: They are lawful asylum seekers, Mr Bullen is a letter from Edward Goodman published in the YOUR VIEWS column of  the Surrey Mirror (REIGATE, REDHILL, HORLEY, CATERHAM, OXTED & SURROUNDING AREAS), May 19, 2022, page 17.

egoodmanp-43.jpg: ‘Leaver’ letter full of errors is a letter from Edward Goodman (former borough bouncillor) published in the YOUR VIEWS column of  the Surrey Mirror (REIGATE, REDHILL, HORLEY, CATERHAM, OXTED & SURROUNDING AREAS), May 26, 2016, page 23.

egoodmanp-44.jpg: Vote proves independence is a letter from Edward Goodman of Redhill published in the YOUR VIEWS column of the Surrey Mirror (REIGATE, REDHILL, HORLEY, CATERHAM, OXTED & SURROUNDING AREAS), June 16, 2016, pages 28-9.

egoodmand-35.pdf: A long letter from Anthony John Slater in response to the Goodman missive of May 26, 2016 (immediately above) published in the same local newspaper, June 9, 2016.

egoodmand-1.pdf: Local election leaflet, 2004.

egoodmand-2.pdf: Xmas card from Goodman to Baron, 2023.

egoodmand-3.pdf: Letter Alexandra Runswick of Unlock Democracy to Goodman, September 2013.

egoodmand-4.pdf: What should be the nature of the accountability of England’s police?

The above is a paper written for the Tawney Society. I cannot remember if it was ever published or read. Had Ted lived, it would almost certainly have been added to his blog at some point.

egoodmand-5.jpg: Labour accuses Tories of ‘sickening hypocrisy (thus punctuated) by Christian van Gerbig, published in the HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating Horley Advertiser, January 27, 1994, page 8.

egoodmand-6.pdf: Petition against a bill by the GLC, drafted by Goodman.

egoodmand-7.pdf: Notice of the winding up of NCROPA.

egoodmand-8.pdf: Copy of Edward Goodman’s application to join Stop The War, 2006.

egoodmand-9.pdf: Draft critique of Column Of Phocas by Sean Gabb (verbatim as converted from the original WORD file).

egoodmand-10.pdf: British Homosexuality 1800-2000 - from TheGoodmanHistoryBlog

egoodmand-11.pdf: BACKLASH...by Nigel Meek, February 2006. (Thanks for the comments).

egoodmand-12.pdf: CENSORSHIP: THE CURRENT LEGAL POSITION IN BRITAIN (MARCH 1991), Legal Notes No. 14, March 1991.  

egoodmand-13.pdf: Jordan is Palestine – this paper was published in HTML format on my main website on March 14, 2023 augmented as follows:

“Update March 2023: On July 31, 1988, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan renounced sovereignty over the West Bank thereby reinstating the Jordan River as an international frontier.

The above paper by EAC Goodman was written in 1982 as far as he can recall but was never published. He cannot remember either at this distance who published International Intelligence nor what sort of journal it was, nor indeed if it was a journal.”

egoodmand-14.pdf:  Postcard from Nettie Pollard, apparently posted in an envelope! The obverse has been rotated ninety degrees. (Don’t believe the media smears on this woman).

egoodmand-15.pdf:  Letter from Mary Hayward, November 18, 1985.

egoodmand-16.pdf: Letter Goodman to the ASA re a wine advertisement (without enclosure), November 5, 2015.

 egoodmand-17.pdf: Letter Mary Hayward to CAC Council, circa November 1985 (see egoodmand-15.pdf).

egoodmand-18.pdf: Letter Department for Culture Media & Sport to Goodman re legislation, November 23, 2015.  

egoodmand-19.pdf: Goodman line of descent (males only), verbatim.

egoodmand-20.pdf: Letter Goodman to DPP re extreme pornography, October  27, 2016.

egoodmand-21.pdf: Letter Goodman to Secretary of State for Culture re film censorship, November 5, 2015.

egoodmand-22.pdf: Letter Goodman to Andy Slaughter MP, December 8, 2015.

egoodmand-23.pdf: Letter Goodman to Tom Watson MP re Internet censorship, (enclosure not included), January 19, 2015.

egoodmand-24.pdf: Letter Goodman to ATVOD re censorship, May 28, 2015.

egoodmand-25.pdf: Letter Goodman to Ministerial Support Team re film classification (without enclosure), December 3, 2015.

egoodmand-26.pdf: Letter BBFC to Goodman (with enclosure) re film censorship, July 1, 2015.

egoodmand-27.pdf: Letter Goodman to BBFC re film censorship, August 12, 2015.

egoodmand-28.pdf: Letter BBFC to Goodman re film censorship, July 24, 2015.

egoodmand-29.pdf: Letter Goodman to BBFC re film censorship, July 13, 2015. (See egoodmand-26.pdf).

egoodmand-30.pdf: Candidates speak on key issues published in the Tunbridge Wells Courier, March 27, 1992, page 8.

egoodmand-31.pdf: Reigate’s nuclear bunkers shutdown published in the Caterham Mirror Incorporating The Caterham Times, June 4, 1992, page 11. (This is the second article in the paper on this date).

egoodmand-32.pdf: Letter Goodman to the Editor of the Daily Mail re BREXIT, September 3, 2018. Ted was passionately opposed to BREXIT, an issue on which we differed profoundly.

egoodmanp-33.pdf: Letter Goodman to the Secretary of State for Culture re age verification on-line, March 19, 2018.

egoodmanp-34.pdf: Letter DVLC to Goodman re offensive registration number, September 28, 2018.

I have not included the letter Edward sent which prompted this response; it was a typically terse Goodman epistle dated September 14.

egoodmans-1.pdf: Speech on obscenity and film censorship, 1979.

egoodmans-2.pdf: Speech on censorship, free speech and pornography, 1986.

Both the above were copied from the NCROPA website.

Video of Goodman discussing the BBFC and film censorship.

The blogpost Real People Who Became Legends was recorded as a video with Edward’s narration. It can be found at this link: https://www.archive.org/details/real-people-who-became-legends-final-cut

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